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picket line ; they begin operations by boring a, small hole into the bud 

 and eating out the centre. When he has devoured all that is palata- 

 ble he goes to the next, and it is not uncommon to find a vine with 

 every bud eaten. The little fellow who does this is about 3-lGth of 

 an inch in length, and is of a steel blue color. We know of no rem- 

 edy but to kill with thumb and finger. Eose-bug, or Rose-chafer^ 

 makes his appearance about the time that the grape blossoms, and in 

 a few days they have been known to destroy large vineyards. Our 

 method of destroying them is to go over the vines and kill the bugs 

 with thumb and finger ; thoy are usually thickest next to the grass 

 land, as that is a good place for them to lay their eggs. The Agri- 

 cultural College recommends spraying at this time one-fourth of a 

 pound of Paris green to fifty gallons of water; or, if you use the 

 Bordeaux mixture, put the Paris green into that. Then we have the 

 grape-vine caterpillar, about 1^ inches long, but I have never heard of 

 their appearing in numbers large enough to do any great harm. Dur- 

 ing the summer, on the under side of the leaf, there may be found at 

 certain times a small brown slug ; they are hatched from the eggs of 

 the steel blue beetle that made his appearance early in the spring. 

 The thrip, that is so troublesome when the grape is grown under glass, 

 will, in extreme dry weather, appear in large numbers upon the out- 

 door grape, and while we do not consider him a dangerous fellow, yet 

 he does not add to the strength of the vine, and we welcome a good 

 shower, as this will keep him in check. These, with the addition of 

 the grape-berry moth, that as yet we have seen but very little of, com- 

 prises about all the insects that have been troublesome in my vine- 

 yard, unless we mention the Phylloxera, who is at work on the roots of 

 nearly all grape vines ; but our native grape, as a rule, is such a strong 

 grower, that they do but little damage if the vine is kept in a good 

 healthy growth ; which in fact has much to do in assisting it to with- 

 stand the attacks of the different fungi, which of late years have been 

 such a terror to the grape grower. My attention was first called to 

 the Phylloxera some eight years ago, on the receipt of GOO Worden 

 grape vines from T. S. Hubbard, of Fredouia, N. Y. — the roots were 

 one complete mass of galls. He wrote me that it was not uncommon, 

 and that the vine was £,uch a strong grower that I would derive no 

 harm from them ; and yet it adds one more to the already too long 

 list. 



Fuyigns diseases. Here we have an entirely different order of 

 things. Instead of animal preying upon vegetable, we have plant at- 

 tacking plant, or parasites living upon their hosts. Those the most 



